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Old May 25th, 2004, 07:52 PM
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Default Re: OT: An Existential Dilemma

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Originally posted by Zen:
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The nuclear physicist, given all appropriate data, can calculate the exact probabilities to this existantial question.
Only on a certain level.
That is correct. Quantum phisic is not nearly as neat as phisicists would like it to be. Can drive person crazy.

Still it illustrates that the question of existance or not existance of physical objects can be scientifically approached, with certain degree of success, in pure probability field, which was the point of my example.
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